Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-04-12 | Page 7 | Old Age and Disability

- CLU ;AC2 ''EISlXlLITY.;;;i--' One. of the most practical problems In the labor world -Is the computation of the period of .life when a workman's earning power begins, to diminish from natural causes.. . ...,-) ., t .. Old are disability Is the basis of profound pro-found economic studies In the countries of the Old World, and la several Euro- j pean government tha '.Question of old are pension has become one of practical politics. Jn. the. United States there Is. no national 'or governmental, system of old age pensions, but It Is interesting to know that the subject had a very important im-portant bear-Ins- on j-ecent pension leyls-i lation. r,i i-i.f Ulij Men who came out of the Civil war at the Eg- of 25 are now ."Just M years of ac&J. .The present commissioner of pensions, pen-sions, Mr. Ware, has made a deep study or tne pension situation created oy tne existing laws. The commissioner ' has convinced himself that the enactment of a servloe pension law. by Congress is unnecessary. ' ; According to Commissioner'- Ware's view, the existing laws, when applied to the survivors, of tha war that ended thirty-nine years ago, , are ample. He finds that, in practice old age produces a state tsf disability which in the. caw of an impoverished veteran procures a pension under the "dependent" act of 18S0 by the time the age of 62 is reached. He is of the opinion that less red tape In the pension bureau would, save- the. decrepit veterans-, from - needless cost, delay and trouble - , . ! Without, any further legislation, . the experience of the pension office Justifies the conclusion that old age la in itself a disability fairly within the meaning Of th law,. .. .:..:- !.-